***What Are You Smoking, December 2022?***

[avail]

Christmas Weekend begins with new package of wooden matches , C&D's "We Three Kings" smoked in a Peterson System Spigot 317.
The Nikon mini- binoculars for watching the local birds that seem as happy to see the sunshine as me, and these wonderful Christmas tobacco blends whose smoke follows everywhere I go this weekend. Feliz Navidad & be well....
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All good, but that blend should at least wait until Epiphany...??!! LOL

 

[FurCoat]

Wessex Gold Brick in a 904

 

[KaunThePiper]

2021 We Three Kings in a Peterson 2021 Christmas Strand

 

[Tar Wheel]

Season’s Greetings, All.

I’ve been busy with my Christmas tradition of waiting until the last possible moment to wrap all the gifts. Now that that task has been completed, it’s time to relax with a bowl of KBV Santa Drive, in a handsome and brand new MM with an acrylic swirled stem that anonymously showed up in my mailbox a few days ago. The wife doesn’t claim to be the generous benefactor, so it has to be one great members of this forum. Thank you, Anonymous, I love it!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all.

Cheers!

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Thank you FB memories - this pic is from dec 24, 2016. I was smoking Solani Silver in a Mark Tinsky Lovat.




As an aside, I noticed Marks son Glenn is now making pipes and selling on SPC. Some of them look pretty interesting!

 

[Mdutson]

Barking Dog match this afternoon Merry Christmas to all!

 

[Jwebb90]

As an aside, I noticed Marks son Glenn is now making pipes and selling on SPC. Some of them look pretty interesting!

Some of them look fantastic and others are horrendous.

 

[JimK]

Good day and warm pipes to all! Due to the ambient temperature in the smoking louge aka garage being 44 degrees (in Florida) I'm having a short bowl of Cringle Flake 2022 in a small Burak Connoisseur smooth Tankard with tapered stem size 2.

 

[avail]

2021 We Three Kings in a Peterson 2021 Christmas Strand
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Ditto...LOL

 

[alaskanpiper]

SPC Hogshead in a Bruce Weaver belge.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Watch City Old Dominion

 

[didimauw]

Finally after two days off of the pipe, neg 30 degree weather, it's finally warming up!

 

[ThermionicScott]

Todays dumbass tip - if you are smoking in the garage, cover the mug of freshly poured over coffee with something and you won’t have to run in the house every ten minutes to ruin it in the microwave!

Maybe this year Santa will bring me those extra brain cells.

Or failing that, a travel mug.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Wicked cold here in Georgia. Getting ready to smoke some GH & Co. Scotch Flake in my Gian Gamboni Stacked Brandy Billiard.
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4 this morning at my house. It's now 24. Don't think I've ever seen Temps this low in my 30 years living in GA, even the mountains.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Couldn’t lock into the forum for almost a month, we swapped to our second home situated in the capetonian suburbs - “403 forbidden” obviously the forum server doesn’t accept any requests from SA servers. Don’t know why, maybe kind of geo blocking. Could reach the PSD forum, and created an account up there, which I didn’t use for some reason.

I'm registered on the PSD forum as well (mainly to be able to see the pictures full-size), but don't post there, either. I'm trying to resist, as I already spend way too much time chatting about pipes and tobacco here.

 

[Scottmi]

Had to go out to the garage to get a filter wrench to open this previously opened tin of three nuns. What a seal! Unreal. Put what I needed into an Orlik Perfect and jarred the rest. Now to enjoy this with a little coffee.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Grousemoor Plug in a Scottish Meer. A plug is appropriate because who ever owned this pipe smoked a plug of some kind in it. The pipes exterior has seen better days but it’s solid and smokes fantastic.

The tobacco you see is the petrified remains of whatever was in it. I doesn’t smell or I’m nose blind.

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I bid on that! Glad you got it!

 

[Nevaditude]

Sunny day listening to podcast of Brian Levine & Rich Esserman talk pipes while smoking ‘Jolly Old St. Nicholas’ in a Peterson 406.

 

[Scottmi]

What am I doing out here? Only someone who likes M 79 is insane enough for this, in a MM Legend, with token hot Tetley’s tea.

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None of my thermometers go that low!

 

[Servant King]

50 degrees this morning, so I had to take advantage. After our usual Shabbat breakfast of eggs, turkey bacon and buttermilk biscuits (and coffee, of course...I'd fly into a murderous rage without it), I went right outside for a bowl of Drew Estate Gatsby Luxury Flake in my Stefano Santambrogio bent Rhodesian. Wifey even kept me company w/a cigarillo. The clock is ticking though...starting Tuesday, we're getting rain every day for a week plus.

Bird report: California towhee, Oak titmouse, White-breasted nuthatch, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, House finch, Dark-eyed junco, California thrasher, White-crowned sparrow, and Common raven. Just had a lox & bagels lunch, and preparing to get my ass kicked at Scrabble. Again.

This smoke was dedicated to my paternal grandmother, who would be 104 today.

Merry X-mas all!